Once Upon a Time in Beirut
MovieTitle | كان ياما كان في بيروت |
User score | 6 |
Release date | Jan 2, 1995 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Jocelyne Saab |
Production country | Argentina, France, Germany, Lebanon |
Production companies | Aleph Production |
Run time | 104 min. |
Two young girls of the war generation, Yasmin and Leila, are in search of Beirut. When they meet an elderly film enthusiast with a secret store of Lebanese films, they persuade him to screen his collection for them. So begins an initiation into the myths and images of Beirut, but the girls want cold figures and facts, war babies indifferent to the memories evoked.